<item>
<p>Philip Hands <email>phil@hands.com</email></p>
</item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Julian Gilbey <email>J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk</email></p>
+ </item>
<item>
<p>Manoj Srivastava <email>srivasta@debian.org</email></p>
</item>
<tt>/usr/share/common-licences/GPL</tt> in the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution or on the World Wide Web at
<url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
- name="&urlname">. You can also obtain it by writing to the
+ name="The GNU Public Licence">. You can also obtain it by writing to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
</p>
<p>
The current version of this document is always accessible from the
Debian FTP server <ftpsite>ftp.debian.org</ftpsite> at
- <ftppath>/debian/doc/manuals/debian-policy.html.tar.gz</ftppath>
+ <ftppath>/debian/doc/package-developer/debian-policy.html.tar.gz</ftppath>
or from the Debian WWW server at
<url id="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/"
- name="&urlname">.</p>
+ name="The Debian Policy Manual">.</p>
<p>
In addition, this manual is distributed via the Debian package
<p>
Packages may not depend on packages with lower priority
- values (excluding build-time dependencies). If this does
- happen, one of the priority values will have to be adapted.
+ values (excluding build-time dependencies). In order to
+ ensure this, the priorities of one or more packages may have
+ to be adjusted.
</p>
</sect>
maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other
time).</p>
+ <p>
+ In order to ensure that local changes are preserved
+ correctly, no package may contain or make hard links to
+ conffiles.
+ <footnote>
+ <p>
+ Rationale: There are two problems with hard links.
+ The first is that some editors break the link while
+ editing one of the files, so that the two files may
+ unwittingly become different. The second is that
+ <prgn>dpkg</prgn> might break the hard link while
+ upgrading <tt>conffile</tt>s.
+ </p>
+ </footnote>
+
<p>
The other way to do it is to via the maintainer scripts.
In this case, the configuration file must not be listed as
not be mixed</em>, for that way lies madness:
<prgn>dpkg</prgn> will ask about overwriting the file
every time the package is upgraded.</p>
+
</sect1>
<sect1>
</item>
<item>
Type 1 fonts should be placed in
- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/</tt>. If font metric files are
- available, they may be placed here as well.
+ <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/</tt>. If font
+ metric files are available, they may be placed here as
+ well.
</item>
<item>
Subdirectories of <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/</tt>